The White Snake: The Origin, released in 2019, is exquisite and beautiful, full of the charm of oriental landscape. The emotion is full and warm, and at the end, Xu Xuan desperately saves Xiaobai, which pushes the story to the climax.
In the end, the word-of-mouth and box office of the film won a win-win situation, with a score of 7.8 in addition to 467 million box office.
After two years, "White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed" continued with the audience. The previous work was titled "fate" and the sequel was titled "robbery", but the core meaning is still a word "love".
First, the love between Xiaoqing and Xiaobai
The protagonists of White Snake: The Origin are Xiaobai and Xu Xuan, and the green snake is just a bystander. In the process of watching, Xu Xuan’s infatuation and deep love for Xiao Bai not only dissolved Xiaoqing’s hostility to him, but also invisibly opened Xiaoqing’s cognition of emotion.
Therefore, Xiaoqing didn’t object when Xiaobai wanted to find the reincarnation of Xu Xuan. When Xiao Bai and Xu Xian met at the broken bridge, she also became the help of both sides.
As a sequel, "White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed" didn’t waste time in the well-known "Legend of the White Snake" bridge, and the beginning was full of water. After that, Xiaobai was taken to Leifeng Tower and Xiaoqing was taken to Shura City by Fahai.
Xiaoqing, who entered the city of Shura, found that she lost all her mana. When I was at a loss, I was chased by a minotaur who suddenly appeared. At the critical moment, I met a girl named Sun.
From Miss Sun, Xiaoqing learned about the situation of Shura City and learned to use modern means of transportation. The two men fought side by side and worked together to survive in the dangerous city of Shura.
After Miss Sun, Xiaoqing formed an alliance with Sima Guan Ren and masked men. Especially in the latter, the identity truth has been reversed again and again, and the audience has been abused again in the ending and eggs.
Trapped in Shura City, Xiaoqing is obsessed with only one thing, and that is to leave Shura City to save Xiaobai. In the end, she realized that her contribution was not unilateral. The person who wanted to give everything for her was willing to give everything for her.
Second, the supporting role of love
People who fall into the city of Shura will have an extremely important thing, which represents the source of their obsession. What Xiaoqing owns is the ribbon left by Xiaobai when he was put into Leifeng Tower.
And Xiao Bai is her obsession.
Besides Xiaoqing, there are two short-lived scenes in the film. One belongs to the Peach Blossom Demon, and the other belongs to Sima Guan Ren.
The peach blossom demon’s obsession is a jade ring, which makes it difficult for her to give up. Therefore, it is a young general who fell into Shura City. The acquaintance under the peach blossom tree, the lingering romance before and after the flowers, and the last farewell immediately turned around are all memories engraved in the bottom of my heart by the peach blossom demon.
However, she finally chose to forget. I threw myself into the pool, and I never remembered that person and that love again.
The obsession of Sima Guan Ren is a small and exquisite medicine gourd. Although he himself said that he was killed by this medicine gourd, in the end, he still chose another method-if the bridge.
This method simply eliminates the obsession in the bottom of my heart, but it will not erase the memory. Therefore, although the past he saw through the pool water was not as clear and clear as that of the Peach Blossom Demon, the people and feelings that made him persistent may be more profound than the former.
Because even after life and death, I still can’t give up.
"White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed" has several highlights besides "emotion".
First, the setting of Shura City
Compared with the upper part, the painting style of White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed has changed greatly. It is no longer a dreamy and beautiful oriental ancient rhyme, but a modern beauty that brings together the sense of eschatology between the city and the wasteland.
The setting of Shura City in the film comes from the interpretation of Buddhist "Xiuluo Road". Among the sentient beings in Xiuluo Road, there are both reincarnations of human beings and gods of reincarnation. Because worldly desires is too strong, irritable and belligerent.
Based on this, the film’s creator has set up a city with terran, demon, Luo Cha and ghosts, regardless of dynasties and regions.
Here, fighting is daily, and life will die at any time. Therefore, the action scenes are almost interlocking, which can be called one after another, making the whole viewing process very enjoyable.
In the city of Shura, there are "robberies" that come from time to time, which are divided into wind, fire, water and gas.
When the wind robbery appeared, it was a Fei Lian beast running in the air and shaped like a white deer; When the fire robbed, it was a huge firebird with wings covering the sky and the ground. Some people say that it is Bi Fang, but the square is like a green crane and has one foot. The firebird in the film obviously does not match; When the water was robbed, it was a huge turtle hidden in the sky and white waves; When the gas is robbed, it is a pomfret fish shaped like a bird.
Every time a robbery occurs, countless monsters follow, without consciousness, only killing instinct. If you are bitten by a monster, you will become the same monster. Coupled with the shape like a vampire bat, this monster in the film is obviously a combination of blood clan and zombie.
Second,A tribute to The Green Snake
In his novels, Li Bihua set up a vague love affair between Green Snake and Fahai. After Tsui Hark adapted it into the film Green Snake, he not only kept this setting, but also interpreted it into a classic bridge.
In White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed, although this passage was not presented, Xiaoqing said that "lust, caution and killing are all broken" when she angered Fahai, which was obviously a reservation and a tribute to this setting.
Third, the identity of the owner of Baoqing Workshop
In the previous film, Lori’s face and the owner of Baoqing Workshop, an old demon, are impressive in the film. In "White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed", the creators not only continued to let her play, but also increased the number of scenes compared with the previous ones.
For others, Shura City is easy to get in but difficult to get out, and it is almost an unsolvable dilemma. But for the owner of Baoqing workshop, it is just a new business place opened by her, with free access and unimpeded. In the film, she shows herself in the water without a pool, a huge white and pink fox, with a powerful and strange aesthetic feeling, which is fascinating in an instant.
In the previous eggs, the owner of Baoqing Workshop sent a box to the dragon at the bottom of the West Lake. In this egg, it was the dragon who returned her a box. In the box, it is a fox with a broken tail. As for the identity of the owner of Baoqing Workshop, netizens speculated a lot, and da ji was the most "highly praised" one, and predicted that she would be the protagonist in the third part. Yes and no, we will know then.
Up to now, the box office of White Snake 2: The Green Snake Robbed has exceeded 199 million, and it is just around the corner to catch up with the previous work. In terms of word of mouth, the ticketing website scored as high as 9.4, which was called "by netizens"The first film I saw this year that I didn’t feel betrayed.”。
(The article is reproduced in: Dangkang Film and Television)
